Join the TuckCommunity

Join the TuckCommunity

Career Advantage

Personalized Career Paths

Our students arrive at Tuck with professional experience and career aspirations as diverse as they are. While each student cultivates their own path to what comes next professionally, Tuck's Career Development Office provides tools, resources, and support to empower you to identify and reach your goals.

World-Class Career Coaches

Tuck's career coaches bring together a wealth of industry expertise to develop personalized post-MBA career strategies, while industry treks take you to the world's most dynamic cities to tour firms, engage with industry leaders, and meet Tuck alumni.

Post-MBA Success

More than 1,000 companies and organizations recruit Tuck students—propelling our graduates to employment levels and compensation rates at or near the highest of those of the top MBA programs worldwide.

Support from the Tuck Network

Combine this with the most responsive alumni network in the world and it's easy to see why our graduates lead the way in measures of MBA employment success.

A New Chapter

"Switching careers has been a pain-free and relatively easy process thanks to Tuck. The personal attention you get here is outstanding, especially the amount of one-on-one time and support you get from the Career Development Office experts as well as alumni and classmates."

Becoming a Global Leader

"Being able to go abroad has really allowed me to scratch the itch to explore, but it’s also helped in thinking about becoming a global leader and having a global career. I didn’t know coming into Tuck how much that would matter and how excited I would be at the opportunity to work abroad—but global experiences at Tuck really shaped that desire."

Doing Well While Doing Good

"The central thread in my Tuck experience is what I’d call values-driven business. I believe most people would like to 'do well while doing good.' I wanted to dive deep into what that meant, understanding the many ways businesses aim to do this, and developing my own definition.

Experiential courses were a powerful way for me to explore this topic. For my first-year project, I worked with an outdoor apparel manufacturer to develop a sustainability marketing and communications strategy. They were already focused on sustainable and responsible business practices, but were unsure of how to communicate their values to customers. A key experiential course during my second year was an independent study where I wrote a case on NPR for Tuck’s core strategy class. It was a great opportunity to explore how a not-for-profit organization can sustain competitive advantage in a rapidly transforming industry."

A New Perspective

"After spending almost three years working in management consulting at Bain & Co., I had never even heard of Professor Vijay Govindarajan's approach to strategy. But in his class, Implementing Strategy, he shifted my entire perspective on strategy, from leadership, to business model execution, to reverse innovation. We tend to see strategy as a holistic approach to operating a business, but in this course I was able to see the intricacies of implementation and the importance of aligning all relevant factors. The importance of implementing strategy—taking your thoughts to actions—was one of the most useful career concepts I developed. The class was absolutely fantastic."

Finance Meets Social Good

"At Tuck, I’ve really been able to focus on strategy for my organization. Every class at Tuck helps me tell the message of our organization better and better. Professor Paul Argenti, for example, talked a lot about core competency and identifying what you’re really good at. It made me think, Are we really good at distributing bikes? Or are we better at financing bikes? That message really resonated with what we were trying to do and reinforced when we were taking the right approach."

A Path to Private Equity

In her student story, Elena Laird T'17 shares why she chose the path of the MBA.

"When I was working at Cambridge Associates prior to Tuck, I predominantly worked with family clients, many of whom were focused on private investments. As a result, I learned a lot about private equity and became interested in it. It is fairly unusual to transition directly from the limited partner side to the general partner side—from wealth management to private equity. I felt that I had many of the necessary soft skills already but needed to go back to school to round out my technical skillset. I also knew an MBA would strengthen my leadership skills and give me the opportunity to take a somewhat unusual jump in my career."

Exploring a Passion

"Although I was going into tech, I found different avenues at Tuck that allowed me to explore my passion for social impact. Tuck has a strong partnership with an education reform program at Columbia Law. I spent an entire semester away at Columbia in a program called Managing Transformation and Change in K-12 Education Reform. I had the opportunity to dive deeply into the history of the U.S. education system, as well as consult for a charter school and help determine a post-secondary support model for its students. Additionally, I serve as a board fellow for a nonprofit in Hanover called Positive Tracks. I love the opportunities that Tuck has for students to really explore all of their passions—whether it’s the first thing they’re going to pursue directly out of Tuck or something they’re thinking about long term."

A Future in Real Estate

"Professor John Vogel has been instrumental in guiding me in the real estate industry. I don’t think I realized when I came to Tuck how uniquely positioned we are as students to be able to benefit from the experience and intuition of the faculty here. Many of the Tuck faculty and staff, like Professor Vogel, take the time to understand the full perspective of what you’re looking for within your personal and professional life and are able to glean the experience you’ve had in the past in order to most effectively advise you on your future. I have certainly benefited from this type of authentic engagement on my path into real estate."

The Multi-Dimensional Leader

"Tuck teaches you how multi-dimensional business is done: I experienced it first-hand through my core courses which help you build on your weaknesses and expand upon your strengths. The school exposes you to a wide variety of opportunities and lets you decide what you want to focus on."